Editor's note: The Cameron Carpenter recital scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts has been canceled because of the impending storm. Tickets can be exchanged or refunded. Information: jorgensen.uconn.edu.

Coney Island – Revisited
"Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland," says the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, "will be the first major exhibition to use visual art as a lens to explore the lure that Coney Island exerted on...

What do Lin-Manuel Miranda and Michael Price have in common? Yes, they're both major figures in musical theater and have earned Tony Awards. But also, on May 24 both men will receive honorary degrees from Wesleyan University in Middletown.
In 2002...

It's no surprise that Ana Moura embraced fado while growing up in Northern Portugal. Fado, the mournful folk music of the Portuguese, which dates back more than 200 years, is ubiquitous throughout Moura's country.
Moura, 34, came of age while immersed...

Six-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award-winner Audra McDonald will headline Long Wharf Theatre's 50th Anniversary Gala on June 5.
Her Broadway accolades in all four acting categories (best leading and featured actress in a musical and also in a...

To play the character of man who has lost it all in Sharr White's "Annapurna," now playing at Harford's TheaterWorks, you need an actor devoid of vanity.
"I don't know if you can find one," laughs Vasili Bogazianos who plays the character of a man who's at the end of his ropes in the play, living in a broken down trailer in the middle of nowhere. He's lost his job, his wife, his son and his health. He's let himself go. The audience first sees him when the play begins naked except for a soiled apron...

How will Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his Republican challenger Tom Foley score points and deflect attacks in their televised, hour-long debate Thursday at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts? Two Yale debaters give the candidates tips and tell viewers what to look out for when the gloves come off.
You can watch it live at 7 p.m. as FOX CT, The Hartford Courant and the University of Connecticut host the event, which the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association is also sponsoring. It will be...

Pink Martini is a democratizing force. The last time they performed at UConn ended in a theater-wide conga line, if memory serves (and it might not). For their 2013 album "Get Happy," Portland's little orchestra, whose tastes and repertoire range from French pop to classical music and jazz to Broadway to just about anything you can name, brought in the von Trapps — a quartet of singers who descend from the Trapp Family Singers — along with Phyllis Diller, Rufus Wainwright, NPR's Ari Shapiro...

He may be off late night TV but longtime "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno continues doing his nighttime shtick. But he's doing it these days as part of his live tour that comes to University of Connecticut's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Center on Sept. 20.
The Emmy Award winning performer is living lots of life after his successful late night TV run, including juggling a new show about his vintage car passion and a host of other projects. He is still keeping the crowds laughing and preparing...

Republican challenger Tom Foley and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will have six more debates before Election Day, Foley's spokesman said Sunday.
The two candidates have received multiple invitations for debates and forums, and the final six debates will be packed into the last five weeks of the campaign, said Christopher Cooper, a spokesman for Foley.
The remaining debates come following the first contest at Norwich Free Academy that was broadcast on the CT-N public affairs network.
"We've got seven...

The show: “Fela!”
The place: Shubert Theater in New Haven.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot?: I was going to write a standard blog-style review of "Fela" which I saw Friday night but since the run was so short -- it ended today -- I decided to instead expand on a few thoughts I had after the show, which was not so much per se about the musical -- which was vibrant, soul-stirring and -- in the second act -- in need of a book writer with sharper know-how.
No, I was struck by the back-to-...